Del Shannon - Greatest Hits

Del Shannon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 10, 1990)
• Original Release Date: May 29, 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B0000032T6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,196 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #71 in Music > Pop > Teen Pop

Track Listings

1. Runaway

2. Hats Off to Larry

3. So Long Baby

4. Hey Little Girl

5. Cry Myself to Sleep

6. The Swiss Maid

7. Little Town Flirt

8. Two Kinds of Teardrops

9. Kelly

10. From Me to You

11. Two Silhouettes

12. Sue's Gotta Be Mine

13. That's the Way Love Is

14. Handy Man

15. Do You Want to Dance?

16. Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow the Sun)

17. Stranger in Town

18. Why Don't You Tell Him

19. Show Me

20. Sister Isabelle

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: SHANNON,DEL
Title: GREATEST HITS
Street Release Date: 05/29/1990
Domestic
Genre: OLDIES

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gold and Schmaltz., August 8, 2001

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Tom (Palatine, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Del Shannon - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Gotta love this guy. "Runaway" is easily one of rocks single greatest songs, but there's a couple lesser-known gems hidden on this comprehensive disc.

"So Long Baby" is fabulous. Deep horn blasts underscore Del's dismissive lyrics. Del makes it clear there is no way this chick burned him more than he burned her. Why isn't this gem in more oldies rotations?

Sadly, Del spent a lot of time on sappy spineless ballads, and Rhino saw fit to include all of them here. Still, this is a great collection of Del's lesser known work.

Del's raucous cover of the Beatle's "From Me to You" is an unexpected surprise.

Like all things Rhino, the liner notes are complete and entertaining. Unklike most things Rhino, some of these cuts don't seem as sterlized as they might be. Actually, the static under "Runaway" just makes it that much cooler.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Untypical teen idol, much better than Four Seasons, July 24, 2005

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TimothyFarrell22 (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Del Shannon - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

The only Shannon CD you really need to own (unless you are a diehard and you need to buy the Bear Family box set). Del Shannon was a 60s rocker who sometimes get lumped in with Four Seasons and other pop stars of the time, but he was very unique, much different from his so-called contemporaries. Unlike the happy bubblegum sounds of Frankie Vallie, Shannon was much more downbeat. He prefered heartbreak ballads to love songs, and his vocals always conveyed desperation and loneliness. "Runaway" is about a man wondering where to go in life after a breakup, and "Hats Off to Larry" is about a man's ex being let go herself. Okay, maybe I'm looking way too deep into this. The fact is that in addition to wondeful songwriting, its great pop music. Is there any true oldies stations out there where "Runaway" isn't a staple on the playlist? My one minor complaint is that they didn't include the version of "Do You Want to Dance" that was on Rhino's "Grandson of Frat Rock". Still, it's a great song. The Amazon editorial review said that "Swiss Maid" and "Sue's Gotta Be Mine", and while they are legions away from "Cry Myself to Sleep" or "Follow the Sun", they're not bad filler at all. One of Rhino's best "Best of", hopefully this one doesn't go out of print like many other Rhino classics have.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hats off to Del, February 8, 2004

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Del Shannon - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

If rock's premier stoic was Roy Orbison, then Del Shannon was its leading paranoid. Most of his great hits have an aura of doom and gloom about them. On the surface, they seem like typical upbeat rock hits of the era, but the lyrics are often about feeling lonely and alienated. Anyway, this CD features all his hits (and misses), other than his '80s comeback hit "Sea of Love". This is great stuff, and I highly recommend it.